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Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about...
Business Insider ^ | 2/20/2019 | Nick Bastogne

Posted on 02/20/2019 8:33:20 AM PST by Carriage Hill

In early February, Google announced that its home security and alarm system Nest Secure would be getting an update. Users, the company said, could now enable its virtual-assistant technology, Google Assistant.

The problem: Nest users didn't know a microphone existed on their security device to begin with.

The existence of a microphone on the Nest Guard, which is the alarm, keypad, and motion-sensor component in the Nest Secure offering, was never disclosed in any of the product material for the device.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: corrupt; criminals; fourthamendment; google; mic; nest; spying; surveillance; technology; technotyranny
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To: carriage_hill

41 posted on 02/21/2019 11:34:38 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: sphinx
Are there any Americans at Google?

Not any damore.

42 posted on 02/21/2019 11:38:48 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: fishtank

LMAO!


43 posted on 02/21/2019 2:16:55 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: fireman15

I think Jeff Bezos is too busy with his own difficulties to bother spying on me.
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Not true. I overheard Bezos talking about your private life yesterday at Starbucks saying he had the time and took a dim view of a lot of things you choose to spend your time doing. Just sayin’.


44 posted on 02/21/2019 3:43:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Alexa wants me to talk.
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Okay.
Alexa, put Hillary,Huma,Bill C.,McCabe,Comey,Mueller and Obama in prison.

Yes.

(Wow, I finally like the new technology after all this time.)


45 posted on 02/21/2019 3:49:15 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: frank ballenger

My Alexa after we un mute her would say, “Sorry I don’t understand your question!”


46 posted on 02/21/2019 3:55:48 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to a wave of outbreaks!!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

My Alexa after we un mute her would say, “Sorry I don’t understand your question!”
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Darn it.

Oh, well, back to talk radio monologues by Mark Levin and Rush inspiring their listeners to send emails to their congresspersons asking that justice be done.
Almost the same.


47 posted on 02/21/2019 4:01:13 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: punknpuss

“I did place a sticker over my computer’s camera. He thinks I’m crazy.”

Even James Comey did that, so he said once.


48 posted on 02/21/2019 4:44:35 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: frank ballenger
Not true. I overheard Bezos talking about your private life yesterday at Starbucks saying he had the time and took a dim view of a lot of things you choose to spend your time doing. Just sayin’.

Yeah, I think that you are right. He told my wife that he objects to the time I spend posting bad things about him here.

49 posted on 02/21/2019 6:04:10 PM PST by fireman15
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To: punknpuss

Your smartphone, if you have one, is a camera and a microphone which can be remotely activated.


50 posted on 02/21/2019 11:07:50 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

I have a smart phone. I know that it has a camera and microphone. I know that it captures all my information: what I’m saying (or ranting about), where I’m going, and where I am. It’s a nifty tracking device. I don’t always carry it with me. As my son says, “You never have your phone on you.” Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. As I told him, “When we were kids and teens, we were gone sometimes all day and no one knew where we were or when we were coming home. When we went driving we didn’t have a phone on us in case of emergencies. You just trusted you’d get to your destination in one piece and without mishap.” He still thinks that’s crazy. I feel sorry for folks who can’t leave the house without it.


51 posted on 02/22/2019 5:08:39 AM PST by punknpuss
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Meanwhile, across the pond...

Alexa, call the police! Smart assistants should come with a 'moral AI' to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law, experts say

52 posted on 02/22/2019 5:24:50 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: carriage_hill

Good morning, Dave...


53 posted on 02/22/2019 5:27:36 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: I want the USA back

SOP when they get caught is to say “Oops, my bad. Sorry. Won’t happen again.”. Over and over and over.


54 posted on 02/22/2019 6:12:04 AM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: mewzilla

+1.


55 posted on 02/22/2019 9:05:14 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Covenantor

That is frightening. The moment we decide that computers have civil rights will mark the beginning of the end for humanity.


56 posted on 02/22/2019 2:19:22 PM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: carriage_hill
Bond girl Severine appears dangerously Alexabotic with her voice.
57 posted on 02/22/2019 2:25:51 PM PST by aspasia
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To: carriage_hill

“It was inadvertent. We didn’t know”

I call shenanigans. You keep costs down by REDUCING the # of components (I can hear the excuses already, “...but, it was already a component of XYZ” [again, prob. NOT needed for any of the features via hold is was sold])


58 posted on 02/22/2019 4:38:45 PM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: carriage_hill

24 hour real time surveillance. 1984 Orwellian, cameras and mics everywhere.

And in Farenheit 451. the original 1966 movie from Ray Bradbury’s novel... montag’s moronic television panel vacant brained wife who overdoses on pill number 2, tranquilized.

Why read a book when there is Google’s “reader” bullcrap, and editing. Copying books to make sure they are NEVER read.

“When Personal Relationships Become Unimportant”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UumO7tg5gpo


59 posted on 02/22/2019 5:50:38 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Sure-— and it can be turned OFF, right? So you say. But electrical engineering and microcircuitry training tell me different.

Your laptop is spying on you, count on it. Documented software by none other than the seeeeeeing eye-—ayyyyyyyyyy!

the “All Seeing Eye”.

Seriously, you call it security— but whose? And whose police?


60 posted on 02/22/2019 5:53:49 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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